SEX. THE PREHISTORIC ORIGINS AT
OF MODERN SEXUALITY DAWN
Christopher Ryan, PhD, and Cacilda Jetha, MD
To all our relations
<p><strong>CONTENTS</strong></p>Preface: A Primate Meets His Match (A note from one of the authors)
Introduction: Another Well-Intentioned Inquisition A Few Million Years in a Few Pages
PART I: On the Origin of the Specious CHAPTER ONE. Remember the Yucatan!
You Are What You Eat
CHAPTER TWO. What Darwin Didn’t Know About Sex The Flintstonization of Prehistory
What Is Evolutionary Psychology and Why Should You Care? Lewis Henry Morgan
CHAPTER THREE. A Closer Look at the Standard Narrative of Human Sexual Evolution
How Darwin Insults Your Mother (The Dismal Science of Sexual Economics)
The Famously Flaccid Female Libido
Male Parental Investment (MPI)
“Mixed Strategies ” in the War Between the Sexes Extended Sexual Receptivity and Concealed Ovulation CHAPTER FOUR. The Ape in the Mirror Primates and Human Nature Doubting the Chimpanzee Model In Search of Primate Continuity
PART II: Lust in Paradise (Solitary)
CHAPTER FIVE. Who Lost What in Paradise?
On Getting Funky and Rockin’ Round the Clock CHAPTER SIX. Who’s Your Daddies?
The Joy of S.E.Ex.
The Promise of Promiscuity Bonobo Beginnings
CHAPTER SEVEN. Mommies Dearest Nuclear Meltdown
CHAPTER EIGHT. Making a Mess of Marriage, Mating, and Monogamy
Marriage: The “Fundamental Condition” of the Human Species?
On Matrimonial Whoredom
CHAPTER NINE. Paternity Certainty: The Crumbling Cornerstone of the Standard Narrative
Love, Lust, and Liberty at Lugu Lake
On the Inevitability of Patriarchy
The March of the Monogamous
CHAPTER TEN. Jealousy: A Beginner’s Guide to Coveting Thy Neighbor’s Spouse
Zero-Sum Sex
How to Tell When a Man Loves a Woman
PART III: The Way We Weren’t
CHAPTER ELEVEN. “The Wealth of Nature” (Poor?)
Poor, Pitiful Me
The Despair of Millionaires
Finding Contentment “at the Bottom of the Scale of Human Beings”
CHAPTER TWELVE. The Selfish Meme (Nasty?)
Homo Economicus The Tragedy of the Commons Dreams of Perpetual Progress Ancient Poverty or Assumed Affluence?
On Paleolithic Politics
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Never-Ending Battle over Prehistoric War (Brutish?)
Professor Pinker, Red in Tooth and Claw
The Mysterious Disappearance of Margaret Power
The Spoils of War
The Napoleonic Invasion (The Yanomami Controversy)
The Desperate Search for Hippie Hypocrisy andBonobo Brutality
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Longevity Lie (Short?)
When Does Life Begin? When Does It End?
Is 80 the New 30?
Stressed to Death
Who You Calling a Starry-Eyed Romantic, Pal?
PART IV: Bodies in Motion
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Little Big Man
All’s Fair in Love and Sperm War
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Truest Measure of a Man
Hard Core in the Stone Age
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Sometimes a Penis Is Just a Penis CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. The Prehistory of O “What Horrid Extravagancies of Minde!”
Beware the Devil’s Teat
The Force Required to Suppress It
CHAPTER NINETEEN. When Girls Go Wild
Female Copulatory Vocalization
Sin Tetas, No Hay Paraiso
Come Again?
PART V: Men Are From Africa, Women Are from Africa CHAPTER TWENTY. On Mona Lisa’s Mind CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. The Pervert’s Lament Just Say What?
Kellogg’s Guide to Child Abuse
The Curse of Calvin Coolidge
The Perils of Monotomy (Monogamy + Monotony)
